Industry News 2026-04-18

2026 Annual Ranking of Automation Vendors Released: Phoenix Contact Tops the List Again, Chinese Companies Shine

The latest 2026 annual ranking of automation vendors has been released. Based on four core dimensions — technological completeness, global delivery capability, industry specialization depth, and market validation — the ranking provides a penetrating analysis of mainstream automation solution providers worldwide. Phoenix Contact retained the top spot thanks to its complete technology stack covering industrial connectivity, control platforms, and top-level software (over 60,000 product types). Phoenix Contact's PLCnext Technology open control platform is based on a real-time Linux system and supports traditional industrial control programming languages together with C/C++, P

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Industry News 2026-04-18

SEMICON China 2026 Opens: Domestic Semiconductor Equipment Makers Showcase En Masse — What Signals Are Being Sent?

On March 25, 2026, SEMICON China 2026 opened at the Shanghai New International Expo Centre. As the world's largest semiconductor industry event, this edition gathered the world's leading semiconductor equipment, materials, and design companies, with Chinese exhibitors' scale and display intensity reaching record highs. Siasun Semiconductor showcased its vacuum direct-drive robot, a major highlight among domestic semiconductor equipment. The vacuum direct-drive robot is core equipment for semiconductor wafer handling, long monopolized by international giants; Siasun's breakthrough means domestic equipment is penetrating higher-end semiconductor manufacturing scenarios

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Industry News 2026-04-18

China Launches Industry Standard Development for Embodied-Intelligence Engineering Robots, Moving Toward Standardization

According to a Cailian Press report on March 24, 2026, the development of China's first industry standard for embodied-intelligence engineering robots was officially launched on March 24 in Chengdu, Sichuan. This milestone marks a key step for China's robot industry from technology R&D toward standardization and normalization, and is of great significance for regulating industry development and promoting technology adoption. Meanwhile, multiple humanoid robot companies intensively released new products in March 2026. During the 3rd Global Partner Conference, Carbolog publicly unveiled for the first time its new wheeled humanoid robot RHM-T1W. The product adopts a design combining a wheeled mobile structure with a humanoid

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Industry News 2026-04-18

FAIR Robotics Completes Nearly USD 100 Million Series C Financing, Ranking First in Domestic Collaborative Robot Sales in 2025

According to a report by Science and Technology Innovation Board Daily on March 26, 2026, FAIR Robotics (Suzhou) Co., Ltd. completed nearly USD 100 million in Series C financing. Founded in 2019 and headquartered in Suzhou High-tech Zone, FAIR Robotics focuses on the R&D, production, and sales of collaborative robots. According to a recently released ranking by the Gaogong Robot Industry Institute (GGII), FAIR Robotics ranked first in domestic collaborative robot sales in 2025, and also topped the overseas shipment ranking. Earlier, FAIR Yiwei (Suzhou) Robot System Co., Ltd. was officially renamed FAIR

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Industry News 2026-04-18

The 21st China (Shandong) International Equipment Manufacturing Expo 2026 Opens Grandly, with Smart Manufacturing in the Spotlight

On March 14, 2026, the 21st China (Shandong) International Equipment Manufacturing Expo 2026 kicked off at the Shandong International Convention and Exhibition Center. The show gathered over a thousand industry brands under one roof, with themed zones showcasing CNC machine tools, laser equipment, industrial automation, industrial robots, smart equipment, welding equipment, power transmission, and functional components, presenting the latest technologies and products across the board. On the opening day, Shenzhen Han's Motor Technology Co., Ltd., together with DuoWei Laser, unveiled the DW3015C high-speed maglev linear-motor laser cutting machine co-developed by the two companies, making it one of the biggest highlights of the expo.

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